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For example, it can correct debilitating and ultimately lethal sickle-cell anemia, in which the abnormal erythrocyte “sickle cells” obstruct small blood vessels, causing frequent infections, pain in the limbs, and damage to various organs, including the lungs, kidneys, spleen, and brain.
His is an abnormal candidacy.
And detailed short-term memory tests were abnormal ten years before onset, as suggested in the Framingham and Kungsholmen studies.
The statistician and economist Yoichi Takahashi tells me that the yen’s 8% appreciation over just ten days in February is abnormal, and probably fueled by speculative attacks.
While it is possible to do this for diseases where the diagnosis is relatively unambiguous and there is only a single abnormal gene associated with the condition (Huntington’s disease is a good example), this is a far cry from saying that a specific gene causes you to be criminal or alcoholic.
The example of ‘aggression genes’ could be made over and over again in relationship to many of the other claims to explain the genetic roots of abnormal or undesirable human behavior.
But at least we now have a promising framework for understanding how bizarre experiences in the mind can be linked to abnormal processes in the brain.
Beyond the headwinds generated by slow advanced-economy growth and abnormal post-crisis monetary and financial conditions, there are the disruptive impacts of digital technology, which are set to erode developing economies’ comparative advantage in labor-intensive manufacturing activities.
Obviously, these choices become harder still in abnormal times, when major global changes occur and central banks follow unconventional policies.
But a new, low-cost approach promises to ease the challenge confronting investors in normal and abnormal times alike.
Whether one is investing in normal or abnormal times, applying a scientific, low-cost approach to get a basket with a higher-than-average share of good apples does seem like a sensible approach.
Investment strategies should not be based on the assumption that all times are “normal” times, and that periodic instability is abnormal.
“All abnormal behavior may not be bad,” says Charnock, “but virtually all really bad behavior is abnormal.
From years of analyzing the abnormal, I’ve developed a keen appreciation for the myriad peccadilloes that are quite normal: the dull co-worker whom others scheme to avoid, the eleventh-hour passing of the buck, the ex you promised to ‘stay friends’ with but never wrote to again, the small but telling things that really get under your skin.”
Hence the taboo on certain words, phrases, and arguments that imply that certain individuals, groups, or practices are superior or inferior, normal or abnormal; hence the search for ever more neutral ways to label social phenomena, thereby draining language of its vigor and interest.
Although the precise nature of the disease’s transmission remains uncertain, a key event in these disorders is the conversion of the prion protein’s normal cells to an abnormal form that appears to be the major (if not the sole) component of the infection.
However, a retrospective study of abnormal prion protein accumulation in appendix and tonsil samples from over 12,600 people in the UK has yielded three more cases, which suggests that the level of BSE infection in the UK population is much higher than the actual number of confirmed variant CJD cases indicates.
However, abnormal prion protein was detected in the recipient’s lymphoid tissues, indicating transmission of infection from an asymptomatic individual.
The risk of genetically abnormal children is one such reason; but, even if it were sufficient, it would justify only a prohibition that was both narrower and wider than the current prohibition on incest.
And the goal of avoiding genetic abnormalities would justify widening the prohibition to sexual relationships between all couples who are at high risk of having abnormal offspring.
As Henry Kissinger has often argued, the US and Iran have strategic interests that are fundamentally in harmony; what is abnormal is the post-1979 estrangement.
So what, exactly, is it that makes today’s global economy abnormal?
Like obese patients suffering from cardio-metabolic risks (the “metabolically abnormal obese”), they have high visceral and subcutaneous fat mass, though metabolically healthy obese patients sometimes have excessive body fat but lower fat infiltration in the liver and in skeletal muscle.
But the differences between the metabolically healthy obese and the metabolically abnormal obese are inconsistent.
None of the women in whom the infection was not confirmed had an abnormal fetus.
Similarly, the potential for union-led bargaining to redistribute income presupposes non-competitive corporate practices, which in turn generate abnormal profits that can be bargained away by unions.
The consequences of abnormal capital flows into China are becoming increasingly apparent, particularly in foreign-exchange markets.
What for Israel appears as "normalization" is totally abnormal for Syria.
“However,” he added, “it would be very abnormal for the suggestions to be listened to.”
Paradoxically, Iranian elections are abnormal by both democratic and autocratic standards.
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